TWO OCTAGONAL IMARI VASES decorated in underglaze blue, gilt and various coloured enamels with shaped panels of ho-o birds on a ground of alternating branches of chrysanthemum and peony, the shoulders with lappels displaying floral motifs, on the neck lattice and flower-head patterns, similar decoration repeated on the domed lids, each with a karashishi finial (one missing its tongue, one vase cracked), late 17th century